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OUR mathematical readers who do not read German will be glad to know that they have now before them a translation of a discussion of three famous geometric problems of antiquity, namely, the duplication of the cube, the tri-section of an angle, and the quadrature of the circle as seen through modern eyes. This discussion took place at Göttingen at a meeting of the German Association for the Advancement of the Teaching of Mathematics and the Natural Sciences, and was presented by the great German mathematician, Prof. Felix Klein, with the purpose of bringing the study of mathematics in the university and gymnasium into closer connection. Such an important work as this will doubtless be read very widely, and the joint translators have done good service in making this discussion more available by the excellent translation we have before us.
Famous Problems of Elementary Geometry.
By Felix Klein. Translated by W. W. Beman and D. E. Smith. Pp. ix+80. (London: Ginn and Co., 1897.)
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Famous Problems of Elementary Geometry. Nature 59, 52 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/059052b0
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